Kalido Conversations — Data governance and master data management

Ralph Hughes talks agile data warehousing with TDWI

Dave Ferrick — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:03:52 +0000

Melissa Parrish from TDWI stopped by our Kalido booth at the TDWI World Conference in Las Vegas to catch up Ralph Hughes. They chatted about some takeaways from his book “Agile Data Warehousing” and what he has planned for the future. P.S. Don’t forget to register for our our upcoming webinar with Ralph Hughes.

Accelerate your data mart migration

John Evans — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:19:43 +0000

Today we announced an update to Kalido Information Engine version 9. One of the awesome new features is its ability to exploit existing models, taxonomies and other related assets like business glossaries to accelerate delivering on a data mart migration and consolidation. We’re seeing more and more companies begin to tackle this problem – or [...]

Delivering on “The Other BI”

John Evans — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:33:24 +0000

I read a really good article in Information Management this week on BI entitled “The Other BI.” The idea in the article is that “business involvement” is the “other BI” that is critical to ensuring success of your business intelligence deployment based on a data warehouse. The recommendations in the article include: IT needs to [...]

Lost in Translation

Mike Wheeler — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:25:49 +0000

Recently, I wrote about treating a data process as the business process that it truly is. The premise was that we must look at data management processes in a more structured way. By spotting repeatable patterns and looking for opportunities to automate some of the mechanical aspects of the process, we can create opportunities to [...]

A Data Process is a Business Process

Mike Wheeler — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:36:02 +0000

Businesses have long sought to optimize core business processes to ensure maximum business performance. IT departments have supported the cause by building systems to automate many of the mechanical aspects of these processes ensuring repeatable, efficient execution of operations. These same IT departments, however, have continued to use traditional labor-intensive methods of building many of [...]